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July 29, 2010

Local Afghan Media Outlets Paid to Run US Propaganda
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Yahoo! News has revealed the leaked Afghan war logs include evidence
that the United States is paying local Afghan media outlets to run US
propaganda. The logs include several reports from Army psychological
operations units that show local Afghan radio stations were under
contract to air content produced by the United States. Other reports
show US military personnel apparently referring to Afghan reporters as
"our journalists" and directing them in how to do their jobs. The
Pentagon ran a similar program in Iraq, where it hired a private company
called the Lincoln Group to pay Iraqi newspapers to run stories written
by US soldiers.



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